Advances in crystallographic methods, the rise of nuclear magnetic resonance, and the blossoming of global structural genomics initiatives have helped to fuel a renaissance in the development of methods for high-resolution protein structural biology. Michael Eisenstein reports.
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Eisenstein, M. The shape of things. Nat Methods 4, 95–102 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0107-95
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